Oh look, snow!

"Glyn Morgan" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...1321-small.jpg

Mind if I file that pic? It might come in useful.

Bill


No Problem, feel free to file it.

Cheers. If you have the sat dish pic and the aerials pic at higher
resolution, could you email them to wrightsaerials (for rest of address see
above)?

Bill

"Glyn Morgan" wrote in message
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: And just for your amusement, again with apologies to Brian, Here are my TV
: and FM aerials in the snow:
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: http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...1327-small.jpg
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: Glyn

home antennas in the UK don't come with de-icers? how strange...

Think you should put a label underneath it saying "T-Rex" and send it
off to Tate Modern, or perhaps enter it for the Turner Prize. You
never know your luck ...

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:12:11 -0000, "Glyn Morgan"
wrote:

And just for your amusement, again with apologies to Brian, Here are my TV
and FM aerials in the snow:

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...1327-small.jpg

Glyn Morgan wrote:
We have had some serious snow here in Surrey. While I'm sure it is
merely a "light dusting" for those beyond the Watford Gap here it is a
the worst for 20 years and has not finished yet. Virtually everything
has come to a standstill. I watched cars this morning getting stuck just
trying to get over our little hump-back bridge.

I was amazed to find that my Freesat satellite dish was still working.
Now I know why I chose to put up a zone2 dish. With apologies to Brian
you can see it in the snow he

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...1321-small.jpg

Which is the Hannington, and which is the CP aerial Glyn ?

Equally grim up the road here in Basingstoke:-

http://www.markyboy.net/snow.jpg

I didn't even bother to try and move the car, put on my wellies and walked to
work, only to have the place shut down and be sent home at 10am for 'elf and
safety reasons !!


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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Which is the Hannington, and which is the CP aerial Glyn ?

We are on the Surrey Hampshire boarder near Aldershot. The Dat75 is pointing
at CP some 35 miles away. The smaller Telves aerial is pointing at
Hannington so that my other half can get the southern variants of the local
news albeit on analogue. We are obviously in the DTT null for Hannington but
occasionally get a sniff of Mux1. In theory Guildford should be an option
but its on the other side of a ridge to us and I have not the nerve to try
the DAT75 vertically polarised. Trees are also a big problem here. Most
people around here are on what ever NTL cable has become.

The Dat75 has an MRD and both aerials are wired together in an A & B-E
combiner. The down-side is that there is a nasty null at Channel 36 so we
don't get analogue Five.


Equally grim up the road here in Basingstoke:-

http://www.markyboy.net/snow.jpg


I think you got a bit more than us. I measured 9 inches on our garden table
this morning.

I didn't even bother to try and move the car, put on my wellies and walked
to work, only to have the place shut down and be sent home at 10am for
'elf and safety reasons !!


Everything has ground to a halt here. No newspapers, trains or buses and all
the schools have been closed. I spent a large part of the afternoon digging
out the car and clearing the drive but I don't have to use the car until
Wednesday. I was just a little worried that it could get worse if it freezes
over tonight.

This all makes retirement feel great. If this happened last year I would be
trying to get round the M25 to junction 8.

Cheers,

Glyn

In article , Glyn Morgan wrote:
I measured 9 inches on our garden table
this morning.

Can't have been all that cold then...

Rod.
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The Dat75 has an MRD and both aerials are wired together in an A & B-E
combiner. The down-side is that there is a nasty null at Channel 36 so we
don't get analogue Five.


Hi Glyn,

Interesting. I used to live near Frimley. At our first house there, CP was
very weak and Hannington quite good.
I combined my aerials using a Fringe A-E combiner which had the split at
C34. When Five began broadcasting from Croydon I swapped this for an almost
identical Fringe combiner with the split at 38. This allowed Five through
from the group A aerial. When Five began from Hannington I swapped them back
as Five on C35 from Hannington was stronger, and the Triax BB Grid aerial
picked it up well.

At the next house (up on the Maultway) CP was much, much better than
Hannington and the 38 combiner was pressed back into use! Here CP was not
amplified, whereas Hannington was still not great even with a 22db masthead
amplifier. Tree screening, the usual Surrey problem! I'm surprised your null
is that bad, either your field strengths are much lower than mine were or
your combiner is less sensitive to exact channels. What make is it?

Cheers.

Glyn Morgan wrote:

This all makes retirement feel great. If this happened last year I would
be trying to get round the M25 to junction 8.

Glad you're enjoying retirement, Glyn!

We had the strangest "different countries" feeling today. We'd been
down to zummerset (Street) for our granddaughter's 2nd birthday. There
was no snow at all down there. It tried, pathetically, a few times but
fizzled out. Driving home this morning it was odd seeing the odd car or
lorry, on a very quite M5, with loads of snow on it! Come Gloucester
though it was on the sides though not much.

Come the M42/M42 (that daft junction at the M40 where the M42 joins the
M42!) and it started to really throw it down. We must have been
travelling up the edge of that white mass they show on the weather maps.

Got home (Solihull) to discover even Brum airport's second Emergency
vehicle route (Hampton Lane)covered in snow, and 6 inches or so in the
garden!

I took pity on the birds and cleared the ground under the feeders, and
put some seed down. I even knocked the ice out of the water containers.
A little later I was amused to see the squirrel I'm trying to dissuade
from the feeders sit down in the water and then run off rapidly.
Obviously he was using that normally iced up water to pivot on to get
down to the feeder!

Oh, and to keep on topic, my Sat dish is bizarrely totally snow free!

Richard

"Doctor D" wrote in message
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... Tree screening, the usual Surrey problem! I'm surprised your null is
that bad, either your field strengths are much lower than mine were or
your combiner is less sensitive to exact channels. What make is it?



Hi,

Thanks for your information. It certainly suggests that I ought to think
about changing the combiner.

I'm not sure which make & type it is. It was bought from CPC in 2004 and
while I still have the receipt it only gives the part number which does not
seem to work anymore and I don't think I want to climb up to have a look at
it until the summer

I'm a little further south than you in Ash. Television reception is terrible
here. Slightly embarrassing for someone who worked in broadcast Design & R&D
for over 30 years. However Freesat reception here is brilliant.

Best regards,

Glyn

"Dickie mint" wrote in message
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Glad you're enjoying retirement, Glyn!


Hi Richard - Retirement is going fine. I seem to be deep into digital
photography although there is still an urge to diagnose the continuous flow
of DTV problems. It seems very difficult to kick the habit.

Best regards,

Glyn